In Venice, where water is everywhere and space is not, the churches of this island-bound city-state are remarkable for their compact forms and for the decorative elements lavished on their façades. ...(Read More)

Pedal along Hadrian's Wall, ride from Edinburgh Castle across the point to Dunbar, or tote your bike up the Roman Steps in Snowdonia National Park—a few of the more than 50 bicycle tours of Great ...(Read More)

One snowy day in Ushuaia, Argentina, which calls itself the "southernmost city in the world," environmental and science writer Eric Simons picked up a copy of Charles Darwin's Voyage of the ...(Read More)

An herbologist in 18th-century France and the lover of botanist Philibert Commerson, Jeanne Baret disguised herself as a man to accompany him on the first French circumnavigation of the world. Glynis ...(Read More)

With its towering peaks and wide-open spaces, Great Britain's Lake District is one of the nation's favorite getaways, but this was not always the case, as the author of The Sun King's Garden ...(Read More)

In the 1920s, most of Europe was still an unfamiliar place to the average Englishman, so the author of The Road to Oxiana and three friends took a drive across the continent, lingering along ...(Read More)

In the 18th century, exploration entered a new phase; the greatest explorers were motivated more by scientific inquiry than by commercial interest, and they set out to make a full record of ...(Read More)

A companion volume to the second run of Alton Brown's Feasting on Asphalt series, this lighthearted and mouthwatering road trip follows Brown and his crew on motorcycles down the length of the ...(Read More)

If you know where to look, unexpected and often extraordinary gardens are nestled in just about every corner of New York City. With color photos throughout (many filling the page), this pocketable ...(Read More)

A philosopher as well as a traveler, former NPR foreign correspondent Eric Weiner follows up The Geography of Bliss with this road-going exploration of places where brilliant thought and ...(Read More)

From Buckingham Palace and the Tower of London to the Roman spa at Bath and the magnificent castle at Caernarfon, from the stones of the Giant's Causeway and the ancient circle of Stonehenge to the ...(Read More)